Town Hall Meeting
GMs + Players == Town Hall Meeting

3 pm DST to 12AM DST would be a good start time.

Sunday: 9am through 3pm

Monday: 9am through 5pm

Applies every week.

Weekends : Depending on other meetings : 8 AM to 3 PM

This is the official time for the town hall meeting. Come if you can. Even if you're late. It will last a couple of hours. This thread is now for putting forth things that you feel we all need to discuss as a community. No flames, no back and forth about if things need to be talked about or not. That's not what this is about. Put your ideas here, I will read them, and potentially add them to our list of things to talk about.

IC power structure is odd. I'm noticing players at the top doing things that less important people should be doing. Restructure of NLM and VS empolyees specifically. People should be fighting for promotions, not being buddy buddy with each other all the time. The IC lower management roles don't seem to exist.

There is no news, or very infrequent news. Freelance work should be offered publically.

The targeting code for objects. I wish it automatically took the 1st object if you don't specify.

The ability to program doors locks. I've never figured it out. help for the door helpfile doesn't help at all. Should probably be intuitive, and not so confusing.

Chemistry code for creating drugs. No helpfiles, no way to really look it up if your character should know, incredibly slow process, don't know how your progress is actually going.

Personal pet peeves :

1) Security tech could use some love.

Security analyzers only show one way communication in your security system. If they could show both ways , you would learn alot about the system and who owns a camera. Right now, the system only shows you the input of a system. Most sec stuff is designed that it shows the input of a system, but not the output.

there is a camera in every corner of Red. With all your UE in sec tech , you still don't have the tools to learn who owns what camera. Knowing where a camera is sending its feed to, could help against the bloat of cameras in the mix.

The new warning about installing camera's is great.

2)Being able to hide bugs and security microphones in car would be great. And give even more functionality to the security analyser. Right now , its impossible (for players) to plant a bug in a car. Because you can't search in a car. So an analyser could scan inside a car and reveal the bug. Thus creating more need for qualified security technicians and give them something to do.

3) Kiosks , if they haven't fixed yet. Haven't been confronted with it myself, but from what i heard , they were / are quite wonky.

4) A decay system in automated shop stock. (Here's looking at you ,Janice). Some shops havent been used in forever. Not because that the items that they sell aren't highly looked for. But because the stock they currently have is junk nobody wants. The shop at Kro's is a really good example. Evry item they have stocked is mostly basic. Alot of players would be interested in higher end items , but since nobody is buying basic car parts , the high end parts don't get restocked.

So you end up having to bother the shopkeep, get him / her puppeted and order an item. for evry item you need. if items 'decayed' and were taken out of the shop inventory after 2-3 months and replenished by crate runners , it would give an feel of being able to shop and shops having something new evry now and then. (60 items in a shop on average means something new evry day or two days).

It just isn't realistic for a shop to have the same inventory for a year. Unless its a front for the mob.

Cybersphere has a similar style. However I do not see the problem with the actual system. Get's a bit using too? Yes. Does it work? Yes.

@Meeting

This is rather simple to ask but is there a way to setup an actual usage of a bed to sleep when there is one available? It looks a bit weird to have someone sleeping in the bed but the bed unoccupied.

Risk/reward in the mix versus risk/reward as a corpie.

Don't know to properly word this without at least offending 5 people and starting a pointless discussion that should be done during the town hall.

i'm just not certain that the current rewards for sticking to the mix aren't outweighing the mix. The unique 'pull' on the mix seem to be very diminishing to the point where it seems easier to get a job on gold and do your stuff there.

Of course , to each his own form of RP And what they want to do with their character and we all want an active and busy gold instead of the wasteland it has been.

Of course , i have never rp'ed a function on gold and avoid it like the plague , so can't really have a fair judgement on it.

Most of you don't realize that this is the same way we built The Mix. It's a tried and true system that is thus far serving us well.

This is a game about the haves and the have nots.

Not just the have nots.

Not everyone RPs the same way. The bigger the divide and the larger the seperation between topside and the mix the better. We want things to be easy topside and hard in the Mix. If you want to RP wealth and affluence you go topside. If you want to RP street life and fighting for survival you go to the Mix.

To each their own, everyone is playing their part in the story. The game isn't about wealth and power, it's about roleplaying. Wealth and power are IC goals to motivate a character and get them moving which in turn generates RP. That is perfect for the Mix.

Gold is about getting things done. Corporations produce things. TV, drugs, medical care, cybernetics. The more players we have topside the more pieces of the economy we can put in play and make available to all levels of the game. The more players we can put in positions of power within every faction the better. We want to empower as many players as we can so they can better create RP for everyone around them while at the same time using their experience to define the 'role' they are in for the future, to make a mold out of it where applicable so that we know what jobs and roles there even are.

Green is about suburban life so far as I can tell.. that's still under heavy development by all of you.

Blue is about the same but it's swanky, ultra rich and elite.

We want players on every level. That means giving the topside players tons of money and wealth at a rate that would astound a mixer.

However, we also impose higher costs on everything for topsiders. Your 130c a night cube motel is replaced by a 35,000 chyen a week house in a suburb next to a park that your corporation pays half your morgage on and a 30 minute communte to work on the mag-lev.

To me that sounds like my IRL life. To someone else it might sound like a chance to try out a career path they are curious about or a chance to live as a rockstar or the founder of a tech startup. Is there something wrong with those characters co-existing in the world with criminals? No. So what's the problem guys? Do you sign on to Sindome to accumulate wealth for your character or do you do it to RP?

It's almost like we've indoctrinated Mixers against corpies so badly that it's bleeding OOC. I had a hard time understanding topside or its importance until I played a corpie. My hope is that the town hall meeting will go a long way toward bridging that gap.

Loyalty. Non-disclosure. Ass-kissing. Work for someone powerful and privileged? Pay for it with expectations of conformation and jumping to demands, or get fired for being an uncooperative oddball.

Morals. Secrets. Competition. Work for a profitable corporation? Earn your place by playing ball, screwing competitors, and exploiting externalities (in economic terms), or risk your position if you don't have the stomach for it.

Callousness. Superiority. Classism. Deserve the gifts of wealth and power? Of course you do - and the filthy unemployed don't, and neither do those incomprehensible deviants who *choose* to be employed in the ghetto.

What do Mixers and Corpies have in common? Each live in an environment where there are power (different kinds), influence (different ways), money (different sources), expenses (different magnitudes), and exploitation (no difference at all - anyone smaller or less ballsy).

When the corporate world in Sindome matures to the point where, individually and collectively, Mixers can be exploited raw for the corporations' benefit, and the corpies who make the decisions to do so have to live with themselves even behind their prejudices and entitlements, *that's* when one of the promises of Sindome will come true.

Being able to build a 'sub-par sandwich' for instance, can be worth something to some folks and not to others. It may not give the nutrition needed to heal at an accelerated rate or it could even make you sick, but you learn from it (with variables) until you can create a sandwich (with medium quality ingredients) that is on par with a slice of cheese pizza. This in turn causes execs to want to eliminate competition.

You simply don't have time to do it all yourself and you would gear crafts with skills and stats you focus on for your job, so to speak. Someone proficient in pistol could gather mutated rat meat from killing them and looting them. You don't buy special knives to filet them that go bad after use, the meat can go bad after a period (not like it was ever good), the quality of the cut could be a factor in value, but the one doing the work doesn't know until they bring it to someone that can give an appraisal (NPC or PC, if the skill for trading doesn't let them know already factored with Int and Luck).

These examples are for the concept, not to try and make it like something else you have prejudice thoughts toward or turn it into a grind. Just adding color to the RP and give reasons to interact without having to sacrifice the GMs focus away from the bigger picture RP. Somewhat of a loose structure of stuff to do besides go to the bar and drink, or run all over the dome for deliveries. I assume (which is usually bad to do) that the Candymen out there already have some structure similar for creating their merchandise, though I don't know for certain. To keep folks from multiplaying and gaming the system it could limit the number of times you do a craft per day, it's not set in stone, I'm just trying to convey an idea.

It's never a waste to read someone's ideas. I would just hold off (or stockpile them up) and post them on that upcoming thread.